Description
Summary
Microsoft AI are looking for a talented Senior Software Engineer at their Beijing office. This role sits at the heart of strategic decision-making, turning market data into actionable insights for a company that's revolutionising AI technology. You'll work directly with leadership to shape the company's direction in the AI market.
About the Role
The MAI-A Fundamentals team is dedicated to building one of the world's largest distributed systems to power Bing Search, Copilot Search, Grounding APIs, and drive advancements in relevance through cutting-edge deep learning techniques. We are currently developing the next generation of grounding APIs and their hosting platform services, with the goal of creating the fastest and most modern search API business. Our efforts focus on constructing a system with a tens-of-billions-level index, an orchestration engine capable of operating within hundreds of milliseconds, and an online GPU inference system. These innovations will enable rapid, scalable, and intelligent search capabilities for a wide range of applications.
Accountabilities
- Understand User Requirements
- Collaborates with appropriate stakeholders to determine user requirements for each scenario on the service gaps based on their scenarios.
- Design, coding and implementation
- Takes part in the discussions for the architecture of products/solutions and creates proposals for architecture by testing design hypotheses and helping to refine code plans.
The Candidate we're looking for
Experience:
- Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 4+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python OR equivalent experience.
Technical skills:
- Familiar with cloud computing platforms such as Azure, K8s.
Personal attributes:
- Good communication, collaboration and problem solving skills, fluent English speaking and writing.
Benefits
- Starting January 26, 2026, Microsoft AI employees who live within a 50-mile commute of a designated Microsoft office in the U.S. or 25-mile commute of a non-U.S., country-specific location are expected to work from the office at least four days per week.
- Health and wellbeing benefits
- Professional development opportunities
- Financial benefits (bonus, equity, pension, etc.)